Reply To: Character Styles Question…

Sure, you can do this with nested styles I think.

First, make a character style that changes the font to Bold (and let’s call it Bold).

Then edit the paragraph style that you’re applying to these kinds of lines:
MISSES: S(6-8), M(10-12), L(14-16)

Let’s say you’ve named that style “Sizes.” So you double-click the Sizes paragraph style, and then in the Drop Caps and Nested Styles, you add a series of Nested styles.

First one applies the char style None through 1 [space] (that is, in the last field, replace the default “Word” with an empty space, a tap on the spacebar).
Second one applies Bold through 1 Character (choose “character” from the menu for the last field)
Third one applies None through 1 [space]
Fourth one applies Bold through 1 Character

Then just repeat that sequence of nested styles for as many times as you have sets of parens in a single paragraph. Note that this won’t work if you use spaces in the paragraph anywhere else but right before the sizes. For example, it wouldn’t work if instead of “MISSES” it said “KID’S CLOTHES”.

There may well be a devilishly clever way to do this with a GREP style, but this works just as well for the example given ;-D

AM